Make Your Voices Heard for Light Rail to Ballard
Tell Sound Transit to SAVE ST3!!!
We’re looking for folks who want to get involved to meet at Stoup in Ballard on April 4th at 12pm. If anyone in sustainable Ballard wants to work on this advocacy come to this meet up to find out more. See other ways to get involved below.
Stand with Seattle Subway to make your voices heard at the Sound Transit Board Meeting this Thursday! Three ways to take action below!
Ten years ago a clear majority of voters approved ST3 to build rail to Ballard, West Seattle, Everett, Tacoma, Issaquah, and Kirkland. Since then we’ve gladly been paying hundreds, even thousands of dollars a year in taxes and fees to build this rail network.
We do that because we know expanding the light rail system is essential for our region’s future.
Ten years ago a clear majority of voters approved ST3 to build rail to Ballard, West Seattle, Everett, Tacoma, Issaquah, and Kirkland. Since then we’ve gladly been paying hundreds, even thousands of dollars a year in taxes and fees to build this rail network.
We do that because we know expanding the light rail system is essential for our region’s future.
THREE WAYS TO TAKE ACTION:
Send an Action Network Letter – NOW!
RSVP to Attend Sound Transit Board – March 26
RSVP to Attend Rally at Stoup Brewing Ballard – April 4
But now that future is under threat. Rather than explore ways to bring costs down and find new funding in order to deliver the rail expansion that voters approved, the Sound Transit board last week signaled their intention to give up. They’re considering abandoning rail to Ballard entirely, and further delaying the other rail projects we approved ten years ago.
We can’t let that happen. It’s more urgent now than ever before that we build all of the ST3 projects. The climate crisis is getting worse. Gas prices are soaring as global instability grows. Our passenger rail projects need to keep pace with newly expanding urban housing.
Email the Sound Transit board right now and tell them: Don’t kill our rail expansion projects!
Better options exist that will drastically reduce costs, improve the Link Light Rail system, and preserve the scope of ST3. We want to help Sound Transit explore these options in order to build the system we approved, in the timeframe that was promised.
Polling shows that light rail expansion is extremely popular. The public doesn’t want Sound Transit to abandon its promises. We want them to deliver the new rail lines we approved and have been paying for through our taxes for years.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
Send an Action Network Letter – NOW!